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Pirate Diary Author: Richard Platt

ISBN: 9781406330601 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 64 Published: 1 April 2011 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 28.0 x 21.6 x 0.7 Description: The swashbuckling adventures of Jake Carpenter, cabin boy.

The twenty-third of September, 1716. I write this on my last day at home. Tomorrow I am to join my Uncle Will aboard his ship and become A SAILOR. Will has told me of sea monsters and mermaids and has sailed through a hurricane. Maybe I shall see these things FOR MYSELF! Nine-year-old Jake Carpenter does indeed see all this - and more, when his ship, the Greyhound, is captured by pirates and he embarks on an exciting new life on the wrong side of the law. Follow his adventures in this swashbuckling account of pirate life, by the creators of the acclaimed Castle Diary.
Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Blue Peter Book Awards: Best Book with Facts About the Author

Richard Platt is the author of Pirate Diary, which won the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Silver Smarties Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award for Best Factual Book, and Castle Diary, which was Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award. He lives in Kent.

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